There are a hundred reasons why you shouldn’t buy a dog from a pet store.
But now we have one more: Paris Hilton may have touched it.
Can dogs get herpes?
There are a hundred reasons why you shouldn’t buy a dog from a pet store.
But now we have one more: Paris Hilton may have touched it.
Can dogs get herpes?
I don’t know if dogs can get herpes, but we wil find out after she put it down and it starts breaking out
if there is a god in heaven that puppy will rip out paris’ s wonky eyeball and bury it in the back yard.
what happened to the once-ubiquitous Tinkerbell? Did s/he get lost in one of Paris’s gigantic handbags?
I don’t know why she’s acting kinda weaker than usual. She’s becoming fluffy and ball-less. Come on Paris get back to your normal kick ass self! YOu got major power, girl! use it
Well, Mercedes, Hilton’s major power is to create disrespect and ridicule. That’s the only talent she possesses.
The girl is independent and not knocked up. She squashes Nicole Richie, Jamie lynn spears, , jessica alba and about 95% of the dumb girls on this planet. the girl kicks ass.
and show yourslef anon. don’t be a pansy.
^^ I completely agree. Paris Hilton is an icon.
Caz, I almost lost my breakfast. A fetish, perhaps an obsession, but Paris Hilton is NOT an icon (or I may have to sign up for iconoclast school). Paris Hilton has contributed dubious things to this world: sullying the family name, starring in a sex tape, starring in an entertaining B-grade reality show, getting arrested and spending time in jail for an ignoble cause, delivering empty promises to change her ways and help improve the world, feuding in public and whoring for fame (Remember when she BECAME Britney’s friend?), creating a few wholly unmemorable and sub-mediocre movies and music tracks, getting paid to party, and sleeping with a few rich guys–including some really sketchy characters.
Audrey Hepburn is an Icon, Jimmy Hendrix is an icon, Prince is an icon, Martin Scorsese is an icon. Paris Hilton is someone who has “independently” traded on the family name to make a few bucks. Fast forward 20 years and tell me if you really think there will be continued Paris Hilton appreciation. Appreciation for what? Paris Hilton is now at the height of fame and she has flaws like many true icons have had. But what has Paris Hilton contributed that’s so lasting? Her true gift is that she’s managed to perpetuate fame in a grand fashion, with little substantive returns. I highly doubt that Paris Hilton has iconic staying power.
^^ skeelo, I apologise! I can completely see where you’re coming from, maybe icon was the wrong word choice? But I volunteer in an Oxfam shop on a tuesday afternoon and the ladies i work with are like, 70+, and they know who she is. EVERYONE knows who she is.
That must count for something, surely.
Caz, you’re totally right, she is an icon and everyone does know who she is – remember her little belly dancing experience in India or wherever it was? the girl’s travelled the world and her name is everywhere
and skeelo, about your little complaints:
sex tape = why? cuz she actually had the nerve to videotape herself and a guy have sex? oh yeah, she’s obviously the ONLY girl on the planet who’s done that. fo sho. i’m sure most of the girls you’ve f*ed have done that, or much more.
b-rate reality show= tori spelling did that, and the only way she could actually get famous enough for people to 1/2 watch is by making a guy leave his wife and have his kid. yep, that’s much better. at least paris got it with her personality and the fact that people are interested in her life and what she does.
jail= martha stewart was in jail, too, big whoopee. and she’s totally repectable.
getting paid to party= like every other famous girl in HW, nothing wrong or crazy about that. she knows what she needs to do to make a living.
Mercedes, there is nothing wrong with disagreeing with me, of course. But you’ve miss my point, entirely. Paris Hilton is known for things that have garnered her great press, but have contributed nothing truly memorable, important, or enduring (key ingredients to icon status) to society. I didn’t say that there are inherent evils in the things that Paris Hilton has done, though I do personally believe that any reasonable person would agree that some of her “contributions” are bad. But unlike Martha Stewart, Paris Hilton has not contributed anything lasting or important to culture.
Paris Hilton only became uber-famous due to a sex tape AND because she’s a well-heeled Hilton, known for her wild party-girl ways. Great contributions. I’ll agree that she has skillfully perpetuated and augmented her fame. Great for her. You’ve cited specious one-off examples that hold little water, as though they blow what I’ve said out of the water. Nice that you register my “little complaints.” Perhaps you should realize that these are your icon’s “little accomplishments.”
Obsession, simple fame (no matter how intense), and icon status are decidedly different things. Paris Hilton has been lionized to a great degree, but that’s as close as she’ll ever come to icon status. She’s very “of the moment.” If People and US realized they could sell more issues writing stories about Tinkerbelle instead of Paris Hilton, they would, and there would be no great initiative, in media or society, to look back and fawn over Paris Hilton’s great accomplishments.
The masses are obsessed with Paris Hilton NOW because she’s our most unabashed example of abject excess, living the good life as though the world is her oyster. To the extent that people care, people want to be her or people want to hate her because she’s as polarizing a celebrity as there is.
And it saddens me to realize that someone would describe a jail stint for felonious crimes with a “big whoopee,” as though jail is the new black.
mercedes: hate to burst the bubble but paris hilton is not even close to being independent. if it weren’t for daddy’s money ole wonky eye wouldn’t be able to get a job in a dairy queen. an independent girl is one who takes care of her own life and acts with some shred of self respect. i have not seen paris attempt to do either of those things.
Icon or not, I’m proud of her for not putting herself in the position of having an unwanted pregnancy. There’s a trend going on right now that’s putting a tremendous amount of pressure on girls to be irresponsible on purpose [and/or to not speak up when their guy is being irresponsible] and to not worry about making a kid, like being a stupid airhead is a good thing.
I realize she probably hasn’t contributed to society in the obvious iconic form, aka make music like elvis or movies like hepburn, but while a lot of dummies are changing diapers, she’s traveling around the world, expanding her mind, growing in knowledge, learning about different cultures. I mean, yeah, I know it’s not like she came back from india and africa a completely intelligent woman now, but she’s doing things that are good for the mind, body and soul, and that, in this day and age, deserves props. There’s a 12 year old girl right now sitting in her room looking at paris and realizing that she doesn’t need to have a kid as soon as she can in order to make a positive contribution to society [*clears throat* nicole ritchie, who was a complete nobody and the only reason people started even caring about her was b/c of this stupid baby trend. and now they’re like wow she’s such a great girl, all b/c she had a kid]. instead this 12 year old girl aspires to go to india, learn belly-dancing, do anything that her dreams and aspirations encourage her to do (and she knows that having sex is ok, you just gotta be smart about it).
You say that she’s a complete nobody who doesn’t deserve this attention, well, all those girls with huge boobs and perfect little bodies whose pictures show up on this site dont deserve to be here either! They didn’t do squat!!
What I’m saying is that paris is famous for non-iconic reasons, just like pretty much every other girl in HW. BUT, even though they’re not iconic, they’re things that don’t involve being a dumb little HW bimbo who is either extremely beautiful but has no personality, got knocked up, or dating some guy whose much higher on the todem pole and that’s the reason people even give her the time of day.
You’re comparing her to Elvis Presley, I’m comparing her to HW girls of today.
She may not deserve iconic status in your eyes, my friend, but you must give her props for not being a weak little pansy girl.
her boobs are tiny, she’s got short hair, she dates guys who are lower than her in status and brings THEM up instead of vice versa, and she’s not trying to be a stupid small brainless girl who lets others control her life. She uses her head (like knowing where to be to get the most publicity to make the most $), in fact, she’s a damn businesswoman, and there’s other things that scream out hey i’m strong and independent and know what i’m doing.
So that, my dear skeelo, is why I call her an icon.
Fair enough, Mercedes. I can respect your interpretation of Paris Hilton as a strong woman. And I can even, begrudgingly, understand your vantage point. And we can agree to disagree, if you still wish to see her as an icon.
I must point out, however, that it has been reasonably well documented that Paris Hilton has had at least one abortion (One has to assume that the pregnancy was, uh, unwanted.), has used the “N-Word” in public for her own amusement, may have contracted herpes, has spent time in jail for DUI and other driving infractions, laughed on video when her pal Brandon “Greasy Bear” Davis said as vile a load of vitriol as one can ever say about a woman (the Lindsay Lohan rant), dissed BFF Kim Kardashian for her own publicity, cried like a little girl when she had to pay for her crimes, and goes to exotic locations not for real world enlightenment but because her life is one long party vacation.
I find it weird that you seem to think baby=bad and dilettante=good. Also, I should point out that Paris Hilton is on record as both being enamored with Nicole Richie’s baby and a bit jealous. I’ll leave it to psych scholars to determine whether Paris Hilton dating Nicole Richie’s baby’s daddy’s twin brother is simply happenstance. And, oh, Paris Hilton hasn’t really dated men that most of us wouldn’t classify as rich or very rich. Pizza boy is the only one who comes to mind. And that may have been part of a Pygmalion fantasy, seeing as Paris Hilton has succeeded in making “celebrities” out of some in her erstwhile inner circle.
Mercedes, I should also point out that you, unfortunately, have a bad habit of attributing big things to me that I haven’t said, thereby polarizing my place in an otherwise relaxed and respectful debate. Find me the sentence where I intimate that “she’s a complete nobody who doesn’t deserve this attention.”
I realize that “celebrity” can be both fleeting and immaterial. I honestly don’t fashion myself as the ultimate arbiter of who makes the cut. And honestly, if this were something that I took so seriously, I probably would have no good reason to frequent a celebrity gossip blog.
At the risk of completely hating on Paris Hilton, I’m saddened to think that some 12-year-old girl may actually be looking at Paris Hilton as her ultimate example of a “successful” woman.
@ skeelo:
Wow. You’ve completely read my mind. Except that your thoughts were more articulate and well-organized. I was just going to say that she’s a nasty, dumb ass skank bitch who wouldn’t last a week without her money or fame. I was also going to say that she is the worst kind of example of success and shouldn’t be beloved because she’s an idiot who squanders her good fortune. But yeah. What you said. I’m going to go with that.
one out of four people have herpes, and most people who have it didn’t get it from being “slutty”. That misconception hurts a lot of people, like me. Anyway i love this website, and i agree on not supporting pet stores!
Would you like to see, what Paris Hilton wants to show us?
http://paris-hilton-seex-tape.blogspot.com
i hate paris hilton a complete bitch
wat the fuck is wrong with her dosent evan read for children shes gotten married 4 times and no one new about it. fuck u fuck u fuck u fuck u fuck u u uuuuuu hor